Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion.

Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion.

Conspiracy theories are a ubiquitous feature of our times. The Handbook of Conspiracy Theories and Contemporary Religion is the first reference work to offer a comprehensive, transnational overview of this phenomenon along with in-depth discussions of how conspiracy theories relate to religion(s). B...

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Main Author: Asbjørn Dyrendal; David G. Robertson; Egil Asprem (Editors)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2018.

Series: Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion 17.
Brill's Companions to Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy Online I, ISBN: 9789004389434.

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Cults.
Conspiracy theories.

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Call Number: BP603 .H355 2018

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of Authors
  • Introducing the Field: Conspiracy Theory in, about, and as Religion /
  • David G. Robertson , Egil Asprem and Asbjørn Dyrendal
  • Explanations
  • Conspiracy Theories and the Study of Religion(s): What We are Talking about, and Why it is Important /
  • Asbjørn Dyrendal , Egil Asprem and David G. Robertson
  • Rational Enchantments: Conspiracy Theory between Secular Scepticism and Spiritual Salvation /
  • Stef Aupers and Jaron Harambam
  • Is a Belief in Providence the Same as a Belief in Conspiracy? /
  • Brian L. Keeley
  • Are Conspiracy Theories a Surrogate for God? /
  • Michael Wood and Karen Douglas
  • A Web of Conspiracy? Internet and Conspiracy Theory /
  • Joseph E. Uscinski , Darin DeWitt and Matthew D. Atkinson
  • Correspondences
  • The Satanism Scare in Apartheid South Africa /
  • Nicky Falkof
  • "Trust Me, You Can't Trust Them": Stigmatised Knowledge in Cults and Conspiracies /
  • Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist and Suzanne Newcombe
  • Popular Music, Conspiracy Culture, and the Sacred /
  • Christopher Partridge
  • Close Companions? Esotericism and Conspiracy Theories /
  • Egil Asprem and Asbjørn Dyrendal
  • The Counter-Elite: Strategies of Authority in Millennial Conspiracism /
  • David G. Robertson
  • Locations
  • Buddhism Endangered by Hidden Enemies: Conspiracy Narratives in Sri Lankan Buddhist Present and Past /
  • Sven Bretfeld
  • Buddhist Islamophobia: Actors, Tropes, Contexts /
  • Iselin Frydenlund
  • Islamism and the Instrumentalisation of Conspiracism /
  • Willow J. Berridge
  • Anti-Jewish and Anti-Zionist Conspiracism in the Arab World: Historical and Political Roots /
  • Barbara De Poli
  • A Fantastic People and Its Enemies: An Analysis of an Emerging Albanian Mythology /
  • Cecilie Endresen
  • Was Aristotle an Anti-Semitic Alien? Conspiracy Theory, Ufology, and the Colonisation of the Past in Contemporary Greece /
  • Tao T. Makeeff
  • The Role of Conspiracy Theory in the Aum Shinrikyo Incident /
  • Tsuji Ryutaro
  • Framing of a Conspiracy Theory: The Efendi Series /
  • Turkay Nefes
  • The Third Rome Against the Third Temple: Apocalypticism and Conspiracism in Post-Soviet Russia /
  • Michael Hagemeister
  • Alexander Dugin: Between Eschatology, Esotericism, and Conspiracy Theory /
  • Victor Shnirelman
  • Conspiracy Theories and Neo-Nazism in the Cultic Milieu /
  • Paul Jackson
  • Evil Cult or Persecuted Minority? Conspiracy Theories Surrounding Falun Gong and the Government of the People's Republic of China /
  • Helen Farley
  • The Messiah is a Salesman, Yet Consumerism is a Con(spiracy): The Church of the SubGenius, Work, and the Pursuit of Slack as a Spiritual Ideal /
  • Carole M. Cusack
  • Afterword: Further Reflections, Future Directions /
  • Egil Asprem , David G. Robertson and Asbjørn Dyrendal
  • Back Matter
  • Index.